AE CS3 on Mac outputs crap DV / DVCPRO footage
by Kenneth Scicluna
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Sep 30, 2008 at 3:50:10 pm
We have some 3D renders which have been passed on to us as tiff sequences, 768x576, 25fps, progressive.
Bringing them into AE CS3 and outputting them as QuickTime DV PAL sequences mangles the resolution. We're not deinterlacing at any stage, so the end result is quite baffling, and is not something i've ever come across on a PC.
Using the DVCPRO codec produces the same result, but outputting as Animation, ProRes or AIC does not -- everything looks crisp in the latter case.
Re: AE CS3 on Mac outputs crap DV / DVCPRO footage by Chris Wright on Sep 30, 2008 at 8:15:37 pm
well I have noticed that exporting out back to a 4:1:1 codec completely destroys my footage. Its just too much data being thrown out. Jpeg2000 is what I use for final muxing. It's like animation but 4 times smaller, 4:4:4 32 bit too.
Re: AE CS3 on Mac outputs crap DV / DVCPRO footage by Kevin Camp on Oct 1, 2008 at 2:48:18 pm
[Kenneth Scicluna]"Useless rant -- why couldn't they turn the option on by default?"
i agree, it's like a hold over from the late 90s and the low quality setting allowed people to editing their home movies on their brightly colored imacs... i will say it is a bit easier now, a few years ago it was a setting in the media itself and you needed quicktime pro to view full quality, or you needed to find a little piece of software to run your file through to remove that setting.
